diff --git a/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/KNearestFuzzyClassifier.java b/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/KNearestFuzzyClassifier.java
index 1cde4681ad7..7bbdbab2cd7 100644
--- a/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/KNearestFuzzyClassifier.java
+++ b/lucene/classification/src/java/org/apache/lucene/classification/KNearestFuzzyClassifier.java
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.WildcardQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.BM25Similarity;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.ClassicSimilarity;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.similarities.Similarity;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;